# 1916 in Canada

Events from the year 1916 in Canada.

## Incumbents
### Crown

* Monarch – George V

### Federal government

* Governor General – Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (until November 11) then Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire
* Prime Minister – Robert Borden
* Chief Justice – Charles Fitzpatrick (Quebec)
* Parliament – 12th

### Provincial governments
#### Lieutenant governors

* Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Robert Brett
* Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Francis Stillman Barnard
* Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Douglas Colin Cameron (until August 3) then James Albert Manning Aikins
* Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Josiah Wood
* Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – David MacKeen (until November 13) then MacCallum Grant (from November 29)
* Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Strathearn Hendrie
* Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Augustine Colin Macdonald
* Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Pierre-Évariste Leblanc
* Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Richard Stuart Lake

#### Premiers

* Premier of Alberta – Arthur Sifton
* Premier of British Columbia – William John Bowser (until November 23) then Harlan Brewster
* Premier of Manitoba – Tobias Norris
* Premier of New Brunswick – George Johnson Clarke
* Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
* Premier of Ontario – William Hearst
* Premier of Prince Edward Island – John Mathieson
* Premier of Quebec – Lomer Gouin
* Premier of Saskatchewan – Thomas Walter Scott (until October 20) then William Melville Martin

### Territorial governments
#### Commissioners

* Commissioner of Yukon – George Black (until October 13) then George Norris Williams (acting)
* Gold Commissioner of Yukon – George P. MacKenzie
* Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Frederick D. White

## Events
### January to June

* January 28 – Women are given the right to vote in Manitoba, after protests by people such as Nellie McClung
* February 3 – The Centre Block of the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa burns down
* February 10 – An anti-German riot hits Calgary
* March 14 – Saskatchewan women get the vote
* April 19 – Alberta women get the vote
* June – Rodeo's first side-delivery chute is designed and made by the Bascom brothers on their Bar-B-3 Ranch at Welling, Alberta.
* May 7 – The Government of Canada authorizes the creation of an all black battalion that became No. 2 Construction Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force.
* June 1 – June 13 – WWI: Canadians fight in the Battle of Mont Sorrel

### July to December

* July 1 – Prohibition of alcohol introduced in Alberta
* July 1 – November 18 25,000 Canadians and Newfoundlanders are casualties at the Battle of the Somme
* July 24 – Earl Bascom enters his first steer riding contest at Welling, Alberta.
* July 29 – The Matheson Fire in the region northwest of North Bay, Ontario, begins. It eventually kills between 200 and 250 people and destroys six towns, including Matheson and Cochrane
* August 11 – The 4th Canadian Division arrives in France
* October 20 – William M. Martin becomes premier of Saskatchewan, replacing Walter Scott
* November 23 – Harlan Brewster becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing William John Bowser
* December 1 – An Order in Council authorizes an increase of troops to 500,000 in the First World War

### Full date unknown

* Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire becomes Governor General of Canada replacing Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught
* The National Research Council of Canada is established.
* The first Doukhobors arrive in Alberta
* Emily Murphy became the first female magistrate in Canada, and in the British Empire.

## Arts and literature
### New works

* Lucy Maud Montgomery – The Watchman & Other Poems
* Max Aitken – Canada in Flanders
* Alfred Laliberté – Les petits Baigneurs

## Sport

* March 30 – The National Hockey Association's Montreal Canadiens beat the Portland Rosebuds of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association 3 games to 2 to win their first Stanley Cup. All Games were played at the Montreal Arena

## Births
### January to June

* January 22 – Bill Durnan, ice hockey player (d.1972)
* February 4 – Pudlo Pudlat, artist (d.1992)
* February 10 – Claude Bissell, author and educator (d.2000)
* February 18 – Jean Drapeau, lawyer, politician and Mayor of Montreal (d.1999)
* February 23 – Molly Kool, North America's first registered female sea captain (d.2009)
* March 10 – Davie Fulton, politician and judge (d.2000)
* April 18 – Ian Wahn, politician and lawyer (d.1999)
* April 27 – Myfanwy Pavelic, artist (d.2007)
* May 3 – Léopold Simoneau, lyric tenor (d.2006)
* May 4 – Jane Jacobs, urbanist, writer and activist (d.2006)
* May 30 – Jack Dennett, radio and television announcer (d.1975)
* June 20 – Jean-Jacques Bertrand, politician and 21st Premier of Quebec (d.1973)

### July to December

* July 16 – John Gallagher, geologist and businessman (d.1998)
* July 21 – Wilfred Cantwell Smith, professor of comparative religion (d.2000)
* August 1 – Anne Hébert, author and poet (d.2000)
* September 5 – Frank Shuster, comedian (d.2002)
* September 18 – Laura Sabia, social activist and feminist (d.1996)
* October 9 – Bill Allum, ice hockey player (d.1992)
* October 30 – Roy Brown Jr., car design engineer (Edsel, Ford Consul, Ford Cortina) (d.2013)
* November 17 – Martin J. Légère [fr], businessman (d.2013)
* November 23 – P. K. Page, poet (d.2010)
* December 5 – Lomer Brisson, politician and lawyer (d.1981)
* December 7 – Margaret Carse, dancer
* December 16 – Harry Gunning, scientist and administrator (d.2002)
* December 20 – Michel Chartrand, activist (d.2010)
* December 23 – Ruth Dawson, artist

### Full date unknown

* John Wintermeyer, politician (d.1994)

## Deaths

* February 3 – Bowman Brown Law, politician (b.1855)
* May 12 – Joseph-Aldric Ouimet, politician (b.1848)
* May 29 – Louis-Alphonse Boyer, politician (b.1839)
* June 27 – Daniel Webster Marsh, businessman and Mayor of Calgary (b.1838)
* July 28 – Pierre-Amand Landry, lawyer, judge and politician (b.1846)
* August 8 – Edgar Dewdney, politician, Lieutenant Governor of Northwest Territories and Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (b.1835)
* December 12 – Albert Lacombe, missionary (b.1827)

### Full date unknown

* Grace Annie Lockhart, first woman in the British Empire to receive a Bachelor's degree (b.1855)